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EVERYTHING -TRICKY DICK'S IN TOWN, but the increasing size and attentiveness of the crowds and the unfailing moderation of the candidate made the poster seem like a tintype out of the past...
...Such a change of policy would not only alleviate many of the day-to-day grievances of the citizen, but also change his basic image of the regime as a harsh and depriving force."This propaganda poster was pinned on a Moscow school's bulletin board. The large letters say "I could not study, so I sold newspapers." In small print it goes on to say: "Study is an unattainable dream for children living in capitalist countries. In such large countries as America, England, and France, one must pay for tuition and therefore almost no new schools are ever built...
Back from Eternity (RKO Radio) is a sort of air-travel poster that looks as if t had been issued by the railroad lobby. As the Aere Pan Latina plane, a beat-up old bimotor, goes whiffling over the Cenral American jungle, the pilot (Robert Ryan) has a black-coffee-and-dark-glasses hangover, and the copilot (Keith Andes) s a scared kid with no more flying time in lis log than a week-old wren. Even less eassuring is the passenger list: a politial assassin (Rod Steiger), a small-time hood (Jesse White), a drunken cop (Fred Clark...
...Contemptibles* of 1914 sang as they marched to battle. British Author Wolf Mankowitz has written a superb novel about an Old Contemptible who has lived beyond his era, beyond World War II (when everything was "more efficient"), and on into the Welfare State. The old fellow recalls the recruiting poster of World War I, "Kitchener Wants You," and adds his sardonic comment: "He's about the only bastard what does...
...cycle tracks (making a midget velodrome of his garden paths, on which he pedaled madly with his toy legs), the horse tracks, brothels, Lesbian joints and cafes. Out of frustrated love for the world of theater and action denied him by his deformity, he created the art of the poster, celebrating popular idols in designs exquisitely executed on stone...